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Indiana, Missouri are winners in latest twirl of coaching carousel

For my money, Selection Sunday and March Madness are not the most entertaining parts of the college basketball year.

The deal-cutting, back-room world of the coaching carousel is jam packed with intrigue.

With most of the top jobs now filled, here are some winners and losers from college basketball’s annual game of coaching musical chairs:

Up: Indiana. To understand why there is so much frustration associated with Indiana Hoosiers hoops, consider: Over the past 23 seasons, IU has lost double-digit games a whopping 18 times. For a program with five NCAA championships that, on tradition, should be a peer of North Carolina, Duke, Kansas and Kentucky, that is an appallingly long stretch of mediocrity.